India and Pakistan because cannot be brought
to peace because the 'disquiet' is always Pakistan provoked; because of
Pakistan’s belligerent ruling class gets its lease of life from its military
that in turn draws authority in the country due to its anti-India stand
exploiting the deep chasms of Hindu-Muslim divide across the border.
India is undoubtedly an emerging world
power, already the world's third largest economy and projected to be having the
largest middle class by 2030, is a place the world economy is looking up to. No
other country including China has the edge of a huge consuming middle class
that can satiate the needs of the world's capital flow. Its market is going to transcend
all and the world powers know it.
India is also the world's largest
democracy, a responsible democracy, a democracy that has the potential to play
the role of power packed export house of talent, a democracy that is space
power, and that is a military power of growing prowess.
Why would it engage in hostilities with a
small country like Pakistan when it knows a peaceful Pakistan is good for its
own growth?
And India can handle bullies like Pakistan
on its own the world community is increasingly realizing it, irrespective of
how many times, including today's, Pakistan pleads for world intervention in
the Kashmir issue.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi chided
Pakistan reminding the neighbouring nation of the futility of raising the
K-issue on international forums saying a UN platform would only derail the
process and no one in the world community reacted on it. That should have been
the clear message to Pakistan. Because the world community knows India will not
provoke hostilities on its own.
But then, Pakistan's political leadership
has had no spine and has had a skewed character crushed under the iron-grip of
a shadowy military that has nothing but anti-India rhetoric and machinery to
draw its sanctity from.
Conflicts like India-Pakistan border issue
are bilateral in nature and subside with the increased world stature of one of
the parties involved and that would ultimately happen in this case. India is
becoming bigger while Pakistan is facing a worsening civil war in its restive
provinces and terror threats across the country.
At the same time, Pakistan is seen as 'terror
sponsoring and exporting' nation-state and a forced peace in Pakistan, sooner
or later, would become a world liability, something a must element for the
world peace. Yes, no one can say when. Probably, when the terrorists would
threaten the Pakistan's nuclear arsenal with their direct reach.
Till then, India can maintain peace and tranquillity
along its borders with Pakistan. And India doesn't need to go over the top for
it because Kashmir may be an issue of survival for Pakistan's military and
politicians but it is no issue at all in India, in spite of the decades of
Pakistan-sponsored terrorism in the state.
Use of restrained force has become a necessity
in these days of state-sponsored terrorism and transnational terror outfits and
that is what India did during this round of unprovoked ceasefire violations
targeting and killing civilians and the world community knows it.